Where you staying Tom? I’m out today, but around tomorrow if you fancy a coffee. If you drive home via A43, you virtually go by my house.
Love his books. Probably have them all on kindle. Russel Blake is another favourite of mine. The Assassin series and Jet are good and he now has a series of books in a dystopian future. He also does a few good stand alone books.
I think Child could benefit from creating a new character as he has become stale. David Baldacci, for example, will write a series of books with the same characters, then end it and start afresh.
Yep I have them all too - I tend to buy them on the kindle and on audible so I can seamlessly go from reading to listening to them with ‘WhisperSync’ I’ll look up Russel Blake cheers!
Wonderful, wonderful things. I love the feel of them and the smell of new ones though I mainly get mine second hand. A bookshop is just heaven. I have stacks of books...some read and waiting to be passed on and some in the queue waiting to be read. I usually have at least 2 on the go at once, one downstairs and one upstairs. My mother told me that there is no such thing as a useless book....even the trashiest will contain some words you don't know or information you were unaware of. I'm still learning now. My son asked me what I wanted if I could have anything I wanted and I replied. 'I want to know everything.' You are never alone or bored with a book. And no, although I like checking things on a computer....a great servant...no technology can replace a book. In fact information is retained better if obtained from the written page than when read on a computer screen....even the scientists who discovered this had no idea why. And breathe.
I am with you there, but i must admit the screen on a kindle is not like a computer screen at all - they call it eInk and it really does look like paper - no reflections etc. It also means that I can have my book instantly and quite often I try new authors as if I hate the book I just delete it. Next time you are out and about take a look at a kindle, I think you will be pleasantly surprised
BTW, @fran-MLs little camera and @Le Tissier's Laces can you name the book above? I am reading it on both your recommendation
I'm sure Kindles have their place and I did consider one once and gave a test runs to a friend's. Didn't like it as I felt it slowed my reading up (fast readers tend to scan rather than read each word) and the weight of a book is not a problem with my lifestyle. I was in pig heaven in Madeira this year....I was looking at the hotel book collection (left by previous guests) and was told by the receptionist to help myself as they had accumulated too many. Every day after breakfast I selected a few books....I was concerned about my luggage limit that holiday for the first time.
That is the time i think a kindle comes into its own. On a two week beach holiday I will read 3 or 4 books. Makes a lot of difference to the weight
It’s Eleanor Oliphant. Here’s another brilliant one for you both - The Testament of Gideon Mack. Wonderful read.
Anyone watching Berlin Station (More4) and/or Little Drummer Girl (BBC1)? Both spy dramas but very different from each other, they are worth watching if you are not already. Every now and then TV puts up some really good dramas and we seem to be in the middle of a run of excellent stuff. Killing Eve was great, and these two are not far behind IMO.
Yes, watching Little Drummer Girl and it’s excellent, as you’d expect from the same production team that did the Night Manager. Don’t know about Berlin Station, which channel?
More4. It's a modern day setting about the CIA trying to find a mole at their Berlin Station. It's got more than one story going on at the same time and sneaky beaky surveillance stuff all over the place.
